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Bull Baird: Labour Market

Extreme Flexibility Dept: Bull Baird in a diplomatic china shop, according to Globe and Mail. Canadians are now participants in a global labour market in which employers have access to a limitless pool of workers from whom they can demand extreme flexibility. This is seen as the key driver of income inequality, depressing wages for everyone except for those at the very top. How did Mr. Harper think Canadians would feel about the massive expansion of this country temporary foreign worker program and Video: When outsourcing goes wrong: Man fired after hiring a Chinese firm to do his work for The Editorial cartoon Maybe it was the bank CEO with a $12.6-million pay package defending his actions that did it. The contrition, when it came, could not put the genie back in the bottle. Suddenly, the story wasnt about Filipino nannies or Chinese miners. It was middle-class office jobs leaving the country. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.